Palmistry (also known as Chiromancy, Cheiromancy, Palm-reading, or Chirology) is the art of predicting events in the future through the study of the palm. It involves the studying and interpretation of one's palm lines.

In 1996, Harry sat his Divination OWL, which involved palmistry as its last part. As with the rest of his Divination exam, this part went very badly; he mixed up the life and head lines in his examinator's hand, thereby informing her that she ought to have died the previous Tuesday.